Hi Brett. Thank you for the swift reply. You provide sicinct info.
Unfortunately, I cannot info for the negative case. Do you know the
answers to my specific questions?
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 10:10, brett holcomb wrote:
Most packages have many options that they can be
configured and built
It depends on the package. If the package supports debug
as an option then debug enables it, -debug disables it.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:02:11 -0400
Lloyd D Budd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Brett. Thank you for the swift reply. You provide
sicinct info.
Unfortunately, I cannot info for the
Hi Brett, So if a package has '-debug' then
(a) does this mean that debug is not available?
or
(b) does this mean that I can optionally remove debug?
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 10:17, brett holcomb wrote:
It depends on the package. If the package supports debug
as an option then debug enables it,
I would have thought that it indicates the default value
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Hi Brett, So if a package has '-debug' then
(a) does this mean
On Thursday 21 August 2003 23:13, Lloyd D Budd wrote:
Hi Brett, So if a package has '-debug' then
(a) does this mean that debug is not available?
or
(b) does this mean that I can optionally remove debug?
Neither. "-debug" means that the package supports the debug flag but
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 10:44, Jason Stubbs wrote:
On Thursday 21 August 2003 23:13, Lloyd D Budd wrote:
Hi Brett, So if a package has '-debug' then
(a) does this mean that debug is not available?
or
(b) does this mean that I can optionally remove debug?
Neither. -debug means that the
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On Thursday 21 August 2003 09:13, Lloyd D Budd wrote:
Hi Brett, So if a package has '-debug' then
(a) does this mean that debug is not available?
or
(b) does this mean that I can optionally remove debug?
That means you do not currently have
It depends - if the package you are installing knows about
a debug option then it will use it, if you do -debug you
tell it not to compile in the stuff for debug. It's
package dependent, not Gentoo.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:13:21 -0400
Lloyd D Budd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Brett, So if a
Aren't use flags defaulted to on so that if the package
knows about debug and you don't explicitly say -debug then
it will include the debug option.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:00:21 -0500
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On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:51, brett holcomb wrote:
Aren't use flags defaulted to on so that if the package
knows about debug and you don't explicitly say -debug then
it will include the debug option.
Apparently not... at least not on ppc. Do some default to on?
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On Thursday 21 August 2003 11:56, Lloyd D Budd wrote:
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:51, brett holcomb wrote:
Aren't use flags defaulted to on so that if the package
knows about debug and you don't explicitly say -debug then
it will include the debug
I thought the docs stated they default to on - it's been a
while since I've read them.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:56:02 -0400
Lloyd D Budd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:51, brett holcomb wrote:
Aren't use flags defaulted to on so that if the package
knows about debug and you
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